 Yes it is! It is time to dance! It's me JP, I'm back! Thanks everyone for coming to the show, it is time for yet another episode of JP's product pick of the week and I've got a great one today, a really lovely one and I think you're gonna love it too. What I'll do first actually is send you to a special place to check it out because this URL right here in this QR code will take you right to the product page for today's product pick and there you will find a 50% off. I have to verify that myself. Is that possible? I'm checking right over here and let's see. We have them at my goodness. Yeah we have 86 of these in stock right now. They were 97 a few minutes ago so people have already noticed the discount. That's great and you don't need any coupon codes or anything like that but before we get ahead of ourselves what I want to do is let you know a little more about the product and what better way to do that than to have Mrs. Lady Aida herself tell you all about it so take it away. Lady Aida. Okay this bike popular demand by popular demand I mean paint your dragon asked for it. This is a neopixel with ultra ultra high density so 300 plus leds per meter so this is a half meter long strip and you're wondering why did you go with a half meter not a full meter? Well the full meter had a gap in the middle and I kind of didn't like it and so I decided you know what if I'm gonna if we're gonna stop this I'm gonna stop the you know one that's just a smooth it's like a very smooth a silicone bead where the colors like mix very nicely so let's go to the next photos here you're so it connects so yeah and there's just some pictures showing the close up so the leds are so close together and they're covered with the silicone that they basically blend like you can like with this with our nicest camera you can and at the lowest brightness you can see the little dots but in person not as much so you can go to the overhead and this is of course we can actually it's so bright let me start over again so yeah this is just ultra ultra high density 165 neopixels so you do need a good power supply I think my power supply maybe isn't that great but you'll need like a up to two amp power supply for these neopixels but that said if you want something here let me move this if you want something super slim and you can even cut it out of the silicone coating this would be great for cosplay or like embedding into like art or something where you want like a perfectly smooth bead of light and now it's a neopixel so you can change every led on this entire strip individually just with any neopixel code yes that is it in fact and what I'm going to do now is jump to the overhead camera here and grab one so I can show you I've got it right under this here hat here it is and what I'll do is let me let me bring it up to the main camera and fire it up because I've got it plugged in and ready to go so let's see where's that little power switch there it is so that's the product pick of the week this week it is the neopixel 332 silicone bead led strip it is a half meter so there's 166 I believe leds in there and it is gorgeous so this is individually addressable neopixel leds like you've come to know and love and it has a jst 3 pin jst sh connector you can chain these if you want you just have to be careful about power consumption what I have going on right here is I've plugged it into a qt pi rp 2040 with a little battery bff and a little lipo battery and as you can see here let me let me put this in the overhead again you get a really nice nearly solid display you can see as they dim there they will start to reveal the trick but at more moderate brightness levels and this is only at I think 0.35 on brightness it almost looks like a continuous neon strip except it's got this individually addressable rgb effect to it which is really cool so if we take a look over here at the main page for this actually let's go to let's go to a view where we can still enjoy those gorgeous leds there uh the let me reload this here you can see these are let's say we have 72 in stock good so they're still in stock I can still keep keep telling you why I love these and no one to get mad at me uh so like Lamar said it gives you this really nice illusion of almost a continuous set of leds if you think about the typical uh neopixels like these right here you have these big leds that are spaced pretty far apart which is useful for certain things for sure but if you want to do something that's going to be seen directly like some cosplay lighting or props for example uh any costuming this is great for that um and the way you control it is the same as any other neopixel you can use circuit python or you can use arduino and we also have some helpers like fast led and fancy led and other libraries but here i'm just using a neopixel library to do a sort of a comet effect we'll have the led animation library and you just need to be mindful about your power consumption so what i want to do is show a somewhat practical and also just fun example of this in a sort of quick and easy cosplay scenario and that's with this here bowler hat uh so i'm just gonna wrap it around the back there and uh let's go to a full view here so we can see this in action uh and some of you know i just got back from london so this seemed like an appropriate ish uh type of attire uh i get that flat there so you can see we've got a really nice uh neopixel bowler hat there which is great for well i don't know what but it looks cool right uh maybe a modernized clockwork orange i don't know and uh all of that is done pretty simply with this code that you can see right here so you can see to control this all i do bring in time board for some pin definitions and the neopixel library then i'm setting this up as a 166 neopixel uh led strip i'm setting it on to a particular pin that i'm using there setting the brightness to actually 0.45 uh and then i have some colors to start and end with and a little bit of a gradient fade effect that i run uh in in order so first the red sort of a pink to red and then a magenta to blue and those are wrapping around uh as you can see there around and around and they look really solid here in this lighting which is great and you've also got that nice sort of light spill effect when you put it next to something which is always i think a really really great way to to show off neopixels particularly on camera bounce that light off of something else um and so uh if you take a look at let me jump back to the product page here rich sad in in our discord said oh the hat may change my mind uh right uh yannick marie asks how much current does that draw in white at full brightness so it's going to be 166 times 60 milliamps if you do rg and b about 20 milliamps per diode at full brightness so uh that is i can't do that math off the top of my head but it's going to be more than you can get away with just on the uh on the board itself so you'd need an external power supply and you could use either the 5 volts 2 amp i think we have a 5 volt 4 amp regulated power supply and we also have a 5 volt uh 10 amp regulated power supply so it just depends on your needs um i'm not sure how much we can get off of the lipo battery in this case that's a great question but uh it's enough to run this and you can see i've it's kind of nice because they're not all on it at the same time and i'm using a mix of two colors and one of those colors is fading as i go so uh it's a it's a nice way to to be careful uh to not exceed your current draw um yeah it's a bunch of leds likely to have mentioned there's a 130 uh sorry the the full meter uh is 332 but there was a a bit of a gap between some of the uh leds in it so so this was sort of the nicer meter way to go she also mentioned that phil b paint your dragon had a had a request for this so i'm not sure if he used this in a project maybe in one of the light um light painting projects i'm not sure but it's uh it's really nice and dense uh so yannick murray yes standard current for led it is a lot for a strip uh let's see other questions over in our chat and by the way for wondering where this this chat right here comes from that is our discord you can go to adafruit.it slash discord go to the live broadcast chat channel and uh there's people there having questions uh yeah really happy to see running off of a lipo right so let me let me go back inside there take that off for a second you can see i just stuck the cutie pie in a little this is a 420 milliamp hour um lipo so you can do the math on how long that would last there and this is a a setup i had done for another project so it's actually kind of tall you could get this much smaller than this but i'm just running to ground power and uh one of the digital pins on there i chose the um mosey pin there just because it was next to next to the other ones uh you can charge that by plugging it in you can also run off of five volt depending on how you're uh set up for power if you're going over usb you can probably get that a little brighter coming off five volt but one of the nice things about this strip put that back on there whoop losing my it's hard to do all backwards uh this runs off of either three volt or five volt logic so no problem running off of modern microcontrollers which is great uh so someone did the math yeah like mary said it's 9.96 amps for the 166 leds out of white full brightness yeah so you could do it with our 10 amp five volt power supply uh just depends on on what you're doing and then batteries might be a different uh different matter all right uh so heading back over to our product page here uh this just has links to the uber guide for neopixels so if you're wondering how to run it you can you can head down to hey look here's this video right now this big link down here will take you to the guide page to tell you everything about uh it okay so yeah this says it uses up to 20 amps max per meter so this is the half half meter so just just under uh 10 amps as yannick said uh if you wanted to go with full brightness on something like this you could also uh depending on your needs use one of the analog strips if you're not trying to do um these types of individually addressable things so those are the 12 volt strips all right let's see am i forgetting anything looks like uh i'll double check the page here see if we've still got these in stock we have 54 in stock so maximum of 10 if you want to get these right now at this great half price $18.75 for a strip of them you can uh plug them together you probably need to add power points along the way i don't know if you'd want to power all of it from from one end so you can add power points along the way uh if you're doing a really elaborate costume for example this could be a good way to do it and you get that gorgeous effect all right uh i think that's going to do it so thank you everyone for stopping by that is my product pick of the week it is the neopixel 332 silicone bead half meter led strip a little sad to take it off but let's see if that'll oops there we go thanks everyone for stopping by head on over to this page right here if you want to buy one or ten of them no coupon needed it will be discounted price as long as this live stream is live and then maybe a couple minutes after that so if you got it in your cart go ahead and check out and enjoy your neopixel strip let us know how you use it uh thanks everyone so much for stopping by it's great to be back and uh i will see you on uh see show and tell tomorrow night liz will be hosting that but i'll probably come on and show something i'm working on and then i'll be doing my workshop show on thursday we've also got uh i believe we have uh ruse brothers on wednesday morning with 3d hangouts i think they're doing that i'm not sure if they were going to be out or not but i think they're there uh and you can check our live broadcasts announce page or type in question mark live in the discord to find out when the shows are uh that is going to be it thanks everyone for stopping by i will see you next time bye bye